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Part 1: Coffee or a Crisis: The CEO’s Choice in Cybersecurity
It always starts like a normal day. You grab coffee, glance at your calendar, maybe get ready for the morning rush. Then ...
Cyber Trends
The Windows 11 Time Bomb Your MSP Forgot to Mention
Let me tell you a story. It starts like most horror stories do—with a false sense of security. I sat down recently with the CEO of a well-run, 250-person company. Smart guy. Good business. Solid MSP. We talked shop: headcount, ...
Microsoft Just Extorted You. Here’s What to Do About It.
You don’t have to upgrade to Windows 11. That’s the good news. The bad news? If you don’t, your business is about to enter a slow, painful spiral into cyber vulnerability and operational chaos. Right now, people are calling Microsoft’s ...
Well, That Didn’t Last Long: Why Your Cyber Strategy Can’t Be Based on Headlines
Not even a full week. That’s how long we had between a glimmer of good news and a fresh slap of reality. Just a few days ago, security analysts were celebrating. Ransomware payments, they said, were down. A win! Maybe ...
Business Resilience
The Silent IT Risk That Can Wreck Your Company Value: Tribal Knowledge
When CEOs and CFOs think about cybersecurity risk, they think about hackers, ransomware, and data breaches. What they do not think about is the way their own IT teams operate—and how that internal process can make or break the company ...
Could Your Business Survive a Cyberattack? (Most Can’t—and Won’t)
The US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities last week. The result? A “spectacular military success,” sure—followed immediately by the Department of Homeland Security warning that Iran’s state-backed hackers (and a gaggle of bored ...
What Your Last IT Project Really Cost You
You did the thing every business does: You launched an IT project. Maybe it was a migration. Maybe a new app rollout. Maybe you just “upgraded some systems.” Great. You made the investment. You expected ROI. But here’s the question ...
Security Best Practices
The Cybersecurity Gap That’s Costing You Everything—and No One's Telling You About It
You’ve made the investments. Your team has security tools in place. You’ve got someone managing IT. You’ve had the compliance audit. On paper, everything looks fine. But there’s a problem. A big one. No one on your team can clearly ...
Your Employees Could Be Putting Your Business at Risk Without Knowing It. Here’s How to Stop It.
You have good people. They work hard and want to do the right thing. But when it comes to cybersecurity, even a small mistake can bring your whole business to a stop. An employee clicks on a fake email. Another ...
Before You Cut the Cybersecurity Budget, Ask This One Question
In every business, there are moments when the numbers force hard conversations. Cash flow gets tight. Priorities shift. And the line items that feel intangible or uncertain—like cybersecurity—end up on the chopping block. You may be in one of those ...
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Wawa Data Breach Includes Information On 30 Million Customers
Another week, another high-profile data breach. This time, it's a big one. In December 2019, the convenience store chain Wawa disclosed that they had discovered malware on their point of sale system ...
Shlayer Malware Continues To Attack Mac Systems
If you're a Mac user, you may have heard of the malware known as Shlayer. It first made headlines in the early part of 2018. The malware is primarily used to install ...
Microsoft Chromium Edge Will Get Internet Explorer Mode
As you may have heard, Microsoft is getting out of the browser game. Recently, the company announced that they were redesigning their Edge browser, which never quite caught on. Rather than trying ...
Data Breach Hits Microsoft Customer Service Database
Over the last twelve months, we've heard reports from companies of all shapes and sizes that have suffered from data breaches. Many of them were caused by an act of carelessness on ...
Active DirectoryBeing Targeted By Malware Called TrickBot
The malware named TrickBot has some new tricks up its sleeves. Recently, a new strain of the malware was spotted in the wild with new capabilities that allow it to target the ...
New IRS Tax Scammers Use Personal Data For Big Returns
Recently, the Department of Justice brought charges against Babatunde Olusegun Taiwo for using personal information acquired on the Dark Web. He used the information from data breaches to file fraudulent tax returns ...
New Ransomware Leaks Confidential Data To Public
There's a disturbing emerging trend in the world of hackers who make use of ransomware to extort payment from companies. Increasingly, if a company won't pay, their data that was stolen and ...
Microsoft Releasing New Chromium Based Edge Browser To Users
Microsoft Edge is dead. Long, live Microsoft Edge! The tech giant Microsoft has seen enormous success in a variety of markets, but it never could make a dent in Google's dominance in ...
Messaging Gets Upgrade For Instagram Users
Mark Zuckerberg's social media empire is chasing growth. It's not hard to understand why. Facebook is the world's largest social media platform, with more than 2.4 billion users worldwide. The bigger you ...
New Malware Sends Offensive Texts From Your Phone
Malware tends to be at its most effective when it exists in secret. Under the radar. This is what allows malicious code to burrow deep into an infected system and capture a ...
iPhone Now Works As A Security Key For Google
Google continues to improve security and its user experience in the Apple ecosystem. The most recent update to the company's Smart Lock app on iOS allows users to use their iPhone as ...
Windows 7 Has Reached The End Of Support
Microsoft would like you to know that Windows 7 has reached the end of the road. No more security updates are coming, and there are no more patches or bug fixes. So ...
